Plansee Se

Plansee Aktiengesellschaft

Wolfgang Glatz

Gebhard Zobl

Wolfgang Kraussler

Gerhard Dipl-Ing Leichtfried

Wolfram Knabl

Bernhard Tabernig

Peter Rödhammer

Jürgen Schatte

Johann Eiter

Juergen Schatte

Reinhold Zach

Thomas Mueller

Robert Oberbreyer

Martin Janousek

Christoph Helmut Bathe

Heinrich Kestler

Zoryana Terletska

Ulrich Hove

Georg Kunschert

Stefan Schönauer

Stefan Schoenauer

Hannes Wagner

Klaus Ennemoser

Andreas Menhard

Thomas Müller

Kaspar Honegger

Peter Roedhammer

Christoph Bathe

An x-ray and/or gamma radiation absorbing slat, for use in an anti-scatter grid having a layer configuration, includes a film-shaped substrate of a metallic material on the basis of at least one heavy metal and at least one coating layer of a material on the basis of at least one metal from the group tin, antimony, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, iridium, platinum, gold or bismuth. The material of the coating layer differs from the material of the film-shaped substrate. An anti-scatter grid for x-ray and/or gamma radiation, a method for producing an x-ray and/or gamma radiation absorbing slat and a method of producing an anti-scatter grid, are also provided.

Anti-scatter grid

A rotary X-ray anode has a support body and a focal track formed on the support body. The support body and the focal track are produced as a composite by powder metallurgy. The support body is formed from molybdenum or a molybdenum-based alloy and the focal track is formed from tungsten or a tungsten-based alloy. Here, in the conclusively heat-treated rotary X-ray anode, at least one portion of the focal track is located in a non-recrystallized and/or in a partially recrystallized structure.

Rotary X-ray anode and production method

A rotating x-ray anode has an annular focal track. The surface of the focal track has a directed ground structure. Over the circumference of the annular focal track and over the radial extent of the focal track, the alignment of the ground structure is inclined relative to a tangential reference direction in the respective surface portion in each case by an angle that lies in the range from 15&#xb0;, including, up to and including 90&#xb0;. A corresponding method for producing a rotating x-ray anode is described.

Rotating X-ray anode with an at least partly radially aligned ground structure

A molding is produced with a disk-shaped or plate-shaped basic body having a large number of knob-like and/or web-like elevations which merge into the basic body with inclined side surfaces. The molding is produced by pressing and sintering powdery raw materials close to the final shape. First, the boundary surfaces of the basic body are pressed to final shape as far as the transition regions of the elevations and the elevations are pressed to an oversize. The projection height of the elevations from the basic body is greater than the projection height in the finally pressed state. Their side surfaces form an angle of inclination in the range from 90&#xb0;-150&#xb0; with the respectively adjacent boundary surface of the basic body. Then the elevations are pressed to near final shape while the angle of inclination is enlarged to a greater value.

Process for producing an interconnector of a high-temperature fuel cell

Rotary X-ray anode

A high-temperature-resistant composite body is formed by joining over an area of a first, nonmetallic section via a bonding solder layer to a second, metallic section composed of Mo, an Mo-based alloy, W or a W-based alloy. A first arrangement composed of the first section, a first Zr solder and an intermediate layer is firstly soldered together in a first soldering step. A second arrangement of the resulting partial composite body, a second solder adjoining the intermediate layer and the second section is subsequently soldered together in a second soldering step. The intermediate layer at least 90 atom % of at least one of the elements Ta, Nb, W. The second solder is formed by precisely one material selected from Ti, Ti-based solder combination, V-based solder combination, Zr or Zr-based solder combination and it melts at a lower temperature than the first Zr solder in the second arrangement.

Process for producing a high-temperature-resistant composite body

A rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube has an anode disc with a supporting portion. A focal track is located in the vicinity of an outer diameter of the anode disc. The supporting portion has inhomogeneous material properties along a radial coordinate of the anode disc to provide a high mechanical load capacity in the area of an inner diameter of the anode disc and a high thermal load capacity at the focal track. These measures provide for a rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube that meets the extreme thermal and mechanical loads during operation. Further, a method for manufacturing such a rotary anode is described as well.

Rotary anode for a rotary anode X-ray tube and method for manufacturing a rotary anode

An X-ray anode includes a coating and a support body. In addition to a strength-imparting region, the support body has a region formed of a diamond-metal composite material. The diamond-metal composite material is formed of 40 to 90% by volume diamond particles, 10 to 60% by volume binding phase(s) formed of a metal or an alloy of the metals of the group consisting of Cu, Ag, Al and at least one carbide of the elements of the group consisting of Tr, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, B, and Si. The highly heat-conductive region can be form-lockingly connected at the back to a heat-dissipating region, for example formed of Cu or a Cu alloy. The X-ray anode has improved heat dissipation and lower composite stress.

X-ray anode having improved heat removal

The invention relates to a process for producing a molding, comprising a disk-like or plate-like basic body -- having a large number of knob-like and/or web-like elevations --- which merge into the basic body -- with inclined side surfaces, by means of pressing and sintering powdery raw materials close to the final shape. According to the invention, the pressing is carried out in a two-stage pressing operation. In the first stage the boundary surfaces of the basic body -- are pressed to at least the approximate final shape as far as the transition regions of the elevations --- and, at the same time, the elevations --- are pressed to an oversize. The projection h' of the elevations --- from the basic body -- is greater by 10%-150% as compared with the projection h from the basic body -- in the finally pressed state. Their side surfaces form an angle of inclination &#x3b1;&#x2032; in the range from 90&#xb0;-150&#xb0; with the respectively adjacent boundary surface of the basic body --. In the second stage, the elevations --- are pressed to at least approximately the final shape, the angle of inclination &#x3b1;&#x2032; being enlarged to a value &#x3b1; which lies in the range from 95&#xb0;-170&#xb0;.

Process for producing a molding

A porous body which has a density of from 40 to 70%, is formed from an Fe-based alloy and contains from 0.01 to 2% by weight of mixed oxide with at least one oxidic compound of one or more metals from the group consisting of Y, Sc, rare earth metals and at least one further oxidic compound of one or more metals from the group consisting of Ti, Al, Cr. The porous body displays no after-shrinkage even at operating temperatures of 900&#xb0; C., it has very good corrosion resistance and it is particularly suitable as a support substrate for use in high-temperature fuel cells.

Porous body and production method

Highly dense shaped parts are produced with a powder metallurgic process. The parts are formed of an alloy that, besides of at least 20 weight % chromium, consists of iron and one or several additional alloy portions that in sum do not amount to more than 10 weight %. The part is produced by pressing and sintering to near final shape a ready-to-press powder where the additional alloy portions are introduced in form of a master-alloy powder. The master-alloy may contain the following variations: the additional alloy portions and the iron portions; or the additional alloy portions, the iron parts, and the chromium portions; or additional alloy portions and the chromium portions.

Powder-metallurgic method for producing highly dense shaped parts

The ferritic iron alloy is particularly suitable as a material for current collectors used in SOFC solid electrolyte high-temperature fuel cells. The material has a high chromium content upwards of 22% by weight, and a molybdenum content of 1 to 10% by weight. Additionally, there is provided 0.01 to 1.5% by weight of yttrium, rare earth metals, and/or their oxides. The alloy in particular has a high resistance to corrosion under the standard cell atmospheres in the temperature range from 700&deg; to 900&deg; C.

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